When in doubt, take a look at the excellent Flatcam manual. I will explain every step in detail and guide you through the whole process. You can find plenty of tutorials online for this.įlatcam is less common, but very easy to use. It is a standard format to save the specifications of your PCB.
If you don't know what these are, creating gerber files for a PCB is like generating a PDF for a text file. I will assume that you know how to design PCBs and export the gerber files. Popular options include: Altium designer, Circuitmaker, Eagle, Kicad. You can use any PCB design software you want. Flatcam to generate the code for the CNC mill.PCB design software to design your PCB.Besides a CNC mill and some tools, we will also need 3 programs to make our own PCB
